"stage of play" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a particular point or period of time during a game, performance, competition, or any other type of event. For example, "At the fourth stage of play the team took the lead in the game."
The partnership had trouble surviving the preliminary stage of play a week ago.
By comparison, Calendar Girls stood at £5.68m at this stage of play – although of course ticket prices were significantly lower eight and a half years ago.
At this stage of play, it would be foolish to bet on any government risking electoral mutiny by embarking on anything sweeping, which could be called a builder's charter.
"There's no advantage if we don't get to the stage of playing them.
"I thought that maybe by the time I got to the stage of playing at a World Cup, players like Essien and Cristiano Ronaldo would have retired.
The answer is "yes," but it requires extending the idea of a sure-thing strategy to its successive application in different stages of play.
In this staging of play, which was part of the summer's Free Shakespeare in the Park, Caesar is a businessman known for his petulant personality, fancy suits and blondish hair with orange overtones.
However, as the number of potential stages of play increases, the backwards induction argument evidently becomes harder to construct.
According to research published Monday by Britain's University of Bath, U.K. young ones routinely go through different stages of play with the blonde humanoid: Dressing her up, then dressing her down in the punitive sense.
Acme's staging of "Play" will include several variations during the repeats — changing the location of the performers in the hall, for example.
Danzan Ravjaa won fame for his staging of plays at monasteries and his criticism of the Manchu, who ruled Mongolia and China until 1911.
